Hi again monks! The basic issue is that I have a little server running that is listening for a specific message. I need my script to connect to the server and send him the message.

I've got the socket set up and it is transmitting to the server. They only problem is that the server is expecting a unicode (I think) message. When I say unicode, I mean 2 bytes per character (perhaps this shows my ignorance about unicode - i've been doing some reading on it and it seems theres a lot to it). I'm running perl a cygwin build of perl v5.8 on windows. The server is also a windows app.

I've been messing around with the Encode module, but have not been able to make this work. Perhaps I don't know the correct encoding to use.

Perhaps it will be enough to just pad the characters with \0's. I'm not sure and am wondering if anyone has experienced this type of thing. Any thoughts?

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